Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage accused Nick Clegg of using tired old statistics. Clegg accused Farage of making them up. But with a chance to fish for Labour and Tory votes, perhaps both men were winners?
Gary Gibbon
YouGov is producing an instant “who won the debate?” poll for the Sun. It’s hard to imagine that will do anything other than give the Ukip leader a massive lead.
The Lib Dem and Ukip party leaders square up for a debate ahead of European elections in May, but who comes out on top?
Ukip leader Nigel Farage declines to comment on accusations that he uses his secretarial allowance to employ both his wife and “former mistress”.
A future Labour government would not hold an in/out referendum on EU membership unless there are moves to transfer fresh powers to Brussels, Ed Miliband says.
Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have given us a taste of their forthcoming radio and TV debates by crossing swords today over their relative voting records.
Former defence secretary Liam Fox labels David Cameron’s pledge to cut net migration to tens of thousands as “statistical nonsense” and says the prime minister is underestimating the threat of Ukip.
Torquay, with its many palm trees, is the most continental of English resorts. Yet this weekend it hosts the most uncontinental of British political parties: Ukip.
We must avoid the “elephant traps”, says Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip’s communications director. The trouble is, the party still has a considerable number of its own.
Labour retains Wythenshawe and Sale East in a by-election, while the Conservatives are pushed into third place by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats lose their deposit.
Gary Gibbon
Despite David Cameron’s assurances, money is very much an object when it comes to preventing flooding.
Swiss voters narrowly back proposals to reintroduce immigration quotas with the European Union – the vote echoes the debate in the UK over the impact of free movement.
Booed by a hostile crowd, Ukip leader Nigel Farage is hit over the head with a placard by an angry protester as he arrives at a Margate hotel. He later laughed the incident off.
A Ukip councillor is suspended by his party after blaming the recent UK floods on the passing of gay marriage laws, and stating homosexuality is a disease “which can be cured”.
The government’s pledge to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands” by the next election is impractical and almost certain to be broken, Business Secretary Vince Cable says.